STRUCTURE Keyvious Avery Background Milan Kundera before studying literature studied music and piano composition Kundera describes his characters lives as music compositions polyphonies forming a fugue ID: 386190
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Unbearable Lightness of BeingSTRUCTURE
Keyvious
AverySlide2
Background
Milan
Kundera
, before studying literature, studied music and piano composition.
Kundera
describes his characters’ lives as music compositions: polyphonies forming a fugue.
Polyphony: music
with several
melodies;
musical composition that uses simultaneous, largely independent, melodic parts, lines, or voices
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Fugue
a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
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First
Main Melody (subject)
Eternal Return…
Idea that events repeat themselves over and over
Fugue…
Melodies that simultaneously repeat themselves to form a harmony.
The is the way
Kendura
themes Unbearable Lightness of Being… His themes are all related but different and unique.Slide5
Main Melody
Answer
Second Voice
Subject Imitation
Counter Subject
Separate melody that enters occasionally with the answer.Slide6
Main Melody
Answer
Second Voice
Subject Imitation
Counter Subject
Separate melody that enters occasionally with the answer.
Eternal Return
Lightness And Weight
Kendura
uses lightness and weight to tie in with eternal return by saying, “Life which disappears once and for all, which does not return is like a shadow, without weight.”
(Harmonies that tie in with the answer) --------- Body vs. Soul
Associated with Light and Weight but cannot be independent.
Example:
Tereza
is a heavy character and her conflict is between her body and soul.Slide7
Other Counter Subjects Include…
Tereza’s
Suitcase
Tomas’ Promiscuity
Sabina’s Bowler’s Hat
Tomas and Franz’s political association
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Variations of melodies.Slide8
Composer
The ideas of the composer (
Kendura
) is stressed through the performers (his characters).Slide9
Composer
The ideas of the composer (
Kendura
) is stressed through the performers (his characters).
“Words Misunderstood”…
Human lives are shaped like musical compositions.
Example:
Sabina’s life is described as a musical composition motif. “It repeats over and over again, each time with a different meaning.”
This tells us that each character possess motifs and recurring ideas (subjects, answers, and counter arguments) in the composition if their lives.Slide10
Beethoven?
Melody within two separate compositions forming a harmony.Slide11
Beethoven?
Melody within two separate compositions forming a harmony.
Tereza
and Tomas
Tomas meets
Tereza
and while they are talking, Beethoven plays on the radio…
Tereza
reminisces on why she fell in love with Tomas (Beethoven plays)
Binding of the 2 Compositions.Slide12
Call and Response
In “Words Misunderstood”, Franz and Sabina are the two speakers.Slide13
Call and Response
In “Words Misunderstood”, Franz and Sabina are the two speakers.
Sabina
Franz
Old Church in Amsterdam
Beauty
“… the image of old liberation.”
Betrayal
Magnificent
Separation of people.Slide14
Call and Response Continued
OPINION OF TRUTH
Sabina
Franz
Living in truth is only possible away from the public.
Being different in public and in private “spheres” into the source of all lies.Slide15
Call and Response Continued
OPINION OF TRUTH
Sabina
Franz
Living in truth is only possible away from the public.
Being different in public and in private “spheres” into the source of all lies.
The differences between them is too much so they call quits. (2 unlike compositions)…
2 unlike compositions cannot harmonize together to form one Fugue.Slide16
Parallel To….
This is parallel to
Tereza
and Tomas in “Words Misunderstood”.Slide17
Parallel To….
This is parallel to
Tereza
and Tomas in “Words Misunderstood”.
Tereza
Tomas
Subject: Body and Soul
Counter Subject: Weight
Subject:
es
muss
sienCounter Subject: PromiscuitySlide18
Parallel To….
This is parallel to
Tereza
and Tomas in “Words Misunderstood”.
Tereza
Tomas
Subject:
Body and Soul
Counter Subject:
Weight
Subject:
es
muss
sien
Counter Subject:
Promiscuity
Common Theme----- Call QuitsSlide19
Later In Novel…Slide20
Later In Novel…
Developmental Episode
Individual Fugue deviated from the subject then goes back into it.Slide21
Later In Novel…
Developmental Episode
Individual Fugue deviated from the subject then goes back into it.
Tomas and
Tereza
sees Prague from 2 different perspectives. Slide22
THEY HAVE TO HARMONIZE!!!Slide23
Later In Novel…
Developmental Episode
Individual Fugue deviates from the subject then goes back into it.
Tomas and
Tereza
sees Prague from 2 different perspectives.
Common theme?
Mutual Love
Their problems came to a resolution.Slide24
Tricky Composer
In Chapter 29,
Kundera
ties in all the motifs into what we sense as a Grand Finale… but then he adds a Coda. Slide25
Tricky Composer
Early in the book,
Kundera
ties in all the motifs into what we sense as a Grand Finale… but then he adds a Coda.
Conclusion of a piece and is used to return the piece to its original subject.Slide26
Tricky Composer
In Chapter 29,
Kundera
ties in all the motifs into what we sense as a Grand Finale… but then he adds a Coda.
Conclusion of a piece and is used to return the piece to its original subject.
PREVIOUS HARMONIESSlide27
“Karenin’s Smile”Slide28
“Karenin’s Smile”
Another discussion of Eternal Return.
Thomas and
Tereza
Common Motif
The Dog,
KareninSlide29
“Karenin’s Smile”
Another discussion of Eternal Return.
Thomas and
Tereza
Common Motif
The Dog,
Karenin
Karenin
was compared to the Garden of Eden, remaining at peace with the day to day cycle/ life of
Tereza
and Tomas. The
Karenin
developed cancer… his life went in a linear direction, never to repeat again and again, grew depression and stopped smiling.
Karenin
was the instrument/ player that couldn’t keep up.Slide30
What is the Coda?
End of eternal return in
Karenin’s
life and the end of eternal return in the fugue’s theme.Slide31
AT LAST
Tomas and
Tereza
became harmonies.Slide32
AT LAST
Tomas and
Tereza
became harmonies.
Meaning…
“Human time does not turn in a circle, it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why we can’t be happy; happiness is the longing for repetition.”
-
KenduraSlide33
AT LAST
Tomas and
Tereza
became harmonies.
Meaning…
“Human time does not turn in a circle, it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why we can’t be happy; happiness is the longing for
repetion
.”
-Kendura
Kendura helps us see the motifs within out own lives and how they are harmonies.